{"id":938,"date":"2016-04-14T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=938"},"modified":"2018-10-08T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:22:42","slug":"outcome-punctuation-4-6","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/chapter\/outcome-punctuation-4-6\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Punctuation","rendered":"Outcome: Punctuation"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Identify Common Punctuation Marks and Their Rules for Correct Usage<\/h2>\r\nIn\u00a0this short skit,\u00a0comedian\u00a0Victor Borge\u00a0illustrates just how prevalent punctuation is (or should be) in language.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"\/\/plugin.3playmedia.com\/show?mf=1291603&amp;p3sdk_version=1.10.1&amp;p=20361&amp;pt=5&amp;video_id=Qf_TDuhk3No&amp;video_target=tpm-plugin-xqle491u-Qf_TDuhk3No\" width=\"640px\" height=\"420px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0px\" marginheight=\"0px\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/course-building\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/Victor+Borge+-+Phonetic+Punctuation+.rtf\">Click here to download a transcript for this video<\/a>\r\n\r\nAs you've just heard, punctuation is everywhere. While\u00a0it can be a struggle at first to learn the rules that come along with each mark, punctuation\u00a0is here to help you: these marks were invented to guide readers through passages\u2014to let them know how and where words\u00a0relate to each other.\u00a0When you learn the rules of punctuation, you equip yourself with an extensive toolset so you can better craft language to communicate the exact message you want.\r\n\r\nAs we\u00a0mentioned at the beginning of this module, different style guides have slightly different rules for grammar. This is especially true when it comes to punctuation. This outcome will cover the MLA rules for punctuation, but we'll also make note of rules from other styles when they're significantly different.\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of end punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation points<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of commas<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of semicolons<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of colons<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of hyphens and dashes<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of apostrophes<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of quotation marks<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of brackets<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of ellipses<\/li>\r\n \t<li>identify the role of parentheses<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Contribute!<\/h2><div style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Did you have an idea for improving this content? We\u2019d love your input.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1P3pFADFEtiY8iwcyzMrz34C629PzFW1aikv56JWToGk\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 600; color: #077fab; text-decoration: none; border: 2px solid #077fab; border-radius: 7px; padding: 5px 25px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.5em;\">Improve this page<\/a><a style=\"margin-left: 16px;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vy-T6DtTF-BbMfpVEI7VP_R7w2A4anzYZLXR8Pk4Fu4\">Learn More<\/a>","rendered":"<h2>Identify Common Punctuation Marks and Their Rules for Correct Usage<\/h2>\n<p>In\u00a0this short skit,\u00a0comedian\u00a0Victor Borge\u00a0illustrates just how prevalent punctuation is (or should be) in language.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/plugin.3playmedia.com\/show?mf=1291603&amp;p3sdk_version=1.10.1&amp;p=20361&amp;pt=5&amp;video_id=Qf_TDuhk3No&amp;video_target=tpm-plugin-xqle491u-Qf_TDuhk3No\" width=\"640px\" height=\"420px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0px\" marginheight=\"0px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/course-building\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/Victor+Borge+-+Phonetic+Punctuation+.rtf\">Click here to download a transcript for this video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve just heard, punctuation is everywhere. While\u00a0it can be a struggle at first to learn the rules that come along with each mark, punctuation\u00a0is here to help you: these marks were invented to guide readers through passages\u2014to let them know how and where words\u00a0relate to each other.\u00a0When you learn the rules of punctuation, you equip yourself with an extensive toolset so you can better craft language to communicate the exact message you want.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0mentioned at the beginning of this module, different style guides have slightly different rules for grammar. This is especially true when it comes to punctuation. This outcome will cover the MLA rules for punctuation, but we&#8217;ll also make note of rules from other styles when they&#8217;re significantly different.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>identify the role of end punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation points<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of commas<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of semicolons<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of colons<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of hyphens and dashes<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of apostrophes<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of quotation marks<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of brackets<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of ellipses<\/li>\n<li>identify the role of parentheses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contribute!<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Did you have an idea for improving this content? We\u2019d love your input.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1P3pFADFEtiY8iwcyzMrz34C629PzFW1aikv56JWToGk\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 600; color: #077fab; text-decoration: none; border: 2px solid #077fab; border-radius: 7px; padding: 5px 25px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.5em;\">Improve this page<\/a><a style=\"margin-left: 16px;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vy-T6DtTF-BbMfpVEI7VP_R7w2A4anzYZLXR8Pk4Fu4\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-938\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Punctuation. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Charles Bradley II. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qf_TDuhk3No\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qf_TDuhk3No<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":40,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Punctuation\",\"author\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation\",\"author\":\"Charles Bradley II\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qf_TDuhk3No\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"70b6a03c-03e8-434b-9e85-e4332b537a36","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-938","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":21,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/938\/revisions\/3175"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/21"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/938\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}